Sport vs Angling - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between sport and angling

is that sport is (countable) any activity that uses physical exertion or skills competitively under a set of rules that is not based on aesthetics while angling is a form of fishing, with a rod, line and angle (hook) for recreation or sport.

As verbs the difference between sport and angling

is that sport is to amuse oneself, to play while angling is (fishing).

sport

English

(wikipedia sport)

Noun

(countable) Any activity that uses physical exertion or skills competitively under a set of rules that is not based on aesthetics.

(countable) A person who exhibits either good or bad sportsmanship.

* Jen may have won, but she was sure a poor sport ; she laughed at the loser.

* The loser was a good sport , and congratulated Jen on her performance.

(countable) Somebody who behaves or reacts in an admirable manner, a good sport.

* You're such a sport ! You never get upset when we tease you.

(obsolete) That which diverts, and makes mirth; pastime; amusement.

* Shakespeare

Think it but a minute spent in sport .

* Sir Philip Sidney

Her sports were such as carried riches of knowledge upon the stream of delight.

* Hey Diddle Diddle

The little dog laughed to see such sport , and the dish ran away with the spoon.

(obsolete) Mockery; derision.

* Shakespeare

Then make sport at me; then let me be your jest.

(countable) A toy; a plaything; an object of mockery.

* Dryden

flitting leaves, the sport of every wind

* John Clarke

Never does man appear to greater disadvantage than when he is the sport of his own ungoverned passions.

(uncountable) Gaming for money as in racing, hunting, fishing.

(biology, botany, zoology, countable) A plant or an animal, or part of a plant or animal, which has some peculiarity not usually seen in the species; an abnormal variety or growth. The term encompasses both mutants and organisms with non-genetic developmental abnormalities such as birth defects.

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(slang, countable) A sportsman; a gambler.

(slang, countable) One who consorts with disreputable people, including prostitutes.

(obsolete, uncountable) An amorous dalliance.

* Charlie and Lisa enjoyed a bit of sport after their hike.

(informal, usually singular) A friend or acquaintance (chiefly used when speaking to the friend in question)

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(obsolete) Play; idle jingle.

* Broome

An author who should introduce such a sport of words upon our stage would meet with small applause.

Derived terms

* air sport * blood sport * combat sport * contact sport * cue sport * extreme sport * flying sport * good sport * individual sport * mind sport * motorsport * old sport * poor sport * professional sport * spectator sport * spoilsport * sportsman * sportsmanship * sport jacket * sport stacking * sport utility vehicle * team sport * watersport * wheelchair sport * winter sport

Verb

(en verb)

To amuse oneself, to play.

To mock or tease, treat lightly, toy with.

* Tillotson

He sports with his own life.

To display; to have as a notable feature.

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(reflexive) To divert; to amuse; to make merry.

* Bible, Isa. lvii. 4

Against whom do ye sport yourselves?

To represent by any kind of play.

* (John Dryden)

Now sporting on thy lyre the loves of youth.

To practise the diversions of the field or the turf; to be given to betting, as upon races.

To assume suddenly a new and different character from the rest of the plant or from the type of the species; said of a bud, shoot, plant, or animal.

(Darwin)

Anagrams

* ports * strop 1000 English basic words ----

angling

English

Verb

(head)

(fishing)

Noun

(wikipedia angling)

A form of fishing, with a rod, line and angle (hook) for recreation or sport.

* Thomas Barker

It is a speciall point to have the sun and moon before you, for the very motion of the rod drives all pleasure from you, either by day or by night; in all your anglings , both with worms and flyes, there must be a great care of that.

Synonyms

* the gentle craft